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...Cesar Chavez's crusade to eliminate use of five of the most toxic chemicals plaguing farm workers and their families has been largely successful," Union President Arturo S. Rodriguez wrote in a letter to the St. Louis-based National Farm Worker Ministry, a farm worker advocacy group...
...Just as often, though, San Pedro Sula's gangs do an excellent job of exterminating each other. Seventeen-year-old Cesar was spotted ambling down the street in his liquid, druggy gait by a bunch of 18 members. Once they zeroed in on the MS tattoos on his forehead, Cesar was cornered and shot four times, in the chest, his shoulders and legs...
...similar white jeep, smashing in doors of MS houses and spraying everybody inside, grandmothers and children, with Uzis. Isidra Benegas, the mother of the crackhead, curses, "These deportees from the U.S. are to blame. They've brought the crack and the killing." A flicker of guilt crosses Cesar's face. He belonged to an MS chapter in Eagle Pass, Texas, before he was deported back to Honduras. "It's either live in the gang, or die," he retorts. And Cesar knows his death may be riding in the next passing...
...threw a party for 15,000 on the Paramount lot, Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante hosted a wild night of salsa and singing Tuesday that had the crowd on its feet, hip-swivelling to Enrique Iglesias, Los Lobos and La India or pounding out their appreciation for farmworker organizer Cesar Chavez and his family...
...Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty in 1971, he worked as a defense attorney and activist for the poor and underprivileged. Groups he defended include the United Farm Workers and its founder, civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, and the radical Black Panther Party...